Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Lieutenant D. G. Greig, 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers, later Pioneer Corps

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. D. G. Greig.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine or better
£60-80

Provenance: DNW, September 2000

Dennis George Greig was born in Edinburgh in April 1896 and was educated at Winchester College. Commissioned into the 16th Lancers on 1 July 1917, he served during the Great War in France and Flanders. He was granted a Regular Army Emergency commission into the Pioneer Corps 27 May 1940, and served in the Middle East as Aide de Camp to the General Officer Commanding, 1st Cavalry Division, 1940-42; and as Deputy Assistant Provost-Marshal in France and Belgium, 1944-45. He died in Edinburgh, 25 July 1971